Designing a Korea City in Los Angeles

David Hyun was a 1.5 generation Korean American architect, who is best known for designing the Japanese Village Plaza in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. Following the success of this project in the early 1980s, Hyun was approached by members of the Korean community to design a similar redevelopment project in Koreatown to be named “Korea City”. Hyun’s son, David K. Hyun is shown here describing the history of his father’s unrealized plans for “Korea City”.